(AP) — Revered abolitionist Harriet Tubman, who was the first woman to oversee an American military action during a time of war, was posthumously awarded the rank of general on Monday.
Wes Moore will posthumously commission Harriet Tubman as a one-star general in the Maryland Army National Guard. Tubman, originally named Araminta, was born in 1822 in Dorchester County on the ...
Around 1844 she married a free black named John Tubman and ... to serve our enslaved people than [Harriet Tubman]." And John Brown, who conferred with "General Tubman" about his plans to raid ...